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My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music

Leon Fleisher and Anne Midgette
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE

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Publisher / library bibliographic records
Leon Fleisher and Anne Midgette. My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music. New York: Doubleday, 2010. ISBN 9780385529181.
Title
My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music
Author
Leon Fleisher and Anne Midgette
Subject
Leon Fleisher
Publisher
Doubleday
Place
New York
Year
2010
Extent
325 pages
ISBN
9780385529181
Language
English
Type
Autobiography / pianist / performance history

SCOPE & CONTENT

This expanded dossier treats My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music as a substantial source on Leon Fleisher. It records the bibliographic identity of the volume and situates the narrative within the artist’s chronology, professional network, repertory, institutional environment and reception. Particular attention is paid to the difference between first-person testimony, retrospective recollection and later biographical reconstruction, so that the book can be used as evidence rather than merely as anecdote.

RESEARCH VALUE

For performance-history research, the book is especially useful for tracing pianistic training, teachers, repertory choices, concert practice, recordings, interpretive ideals and the changing institutions of twentieth-century pianism. Where the author writes from personal memory, those observations are treated as primary testimony and should be compared with programs, recordings, correspondence and contemporary criticism.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND DOCUMENTARY SCOPE

The record preserves title, author, subject and edition-level identifiers so that the source can be retrieved even when the physical PDF filename is abbreviated. The underlying document is never renamed or altered by this enrichment layer.

RESEARCH VALUE

The dossier treats biography as evidence for chronology, repertory, institutions, performance practice and reception. Verified catalogue values are retained; curated values are copied only into empty fields when a physical attachment can be matched safely.

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